Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 18:13:09 +0100 From: Richard Danter <richard.danter@ntlworld.com> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shared /usr/ports directories Message-ID: <428CC925.1090201@ntlworld.com> In-Reply-To: <20050519165710.GA25173@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> References: <428CC15A.8030600@ntlworld.com> <20050519165710.GA25173@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 05:39:54PM +0100, Richard Danter wrote: > >>Hi all, >> >>I have several machines running FBSD now. At the moment I have a >>complete ports tree on each machine. I was wondering if it was possible >>to have it all on just one machine and NFS mount it? > > > That is certainly possible. > > >>I have already been doing this for the /usr/ports/distfiles directory, >>but had not shared everything else as I was not sure if settings from a >>build on one machine may cause problems when building on another machine. >> >>Each machine has it's own /etc/make.conf with settings such as the >>processor type, so it is important that one build can't effect another. > > > I would suggest you set WRKDIRPREFIX in /etc/make.conf so that the > files built by the ports system do not get placed under /usr/ports but > somewhere else. Is it just the object (.o) files that this effects, or all generated files? Where do the configurations get saved (for those ports with a config menu)? > For example I have 'WRKDIRPREFIX=/var/workdir' in my /etc/make.conf. > That way all the files that are created when you build a port ends up > under /var/workdir rather than under /usr/ports. If WRKDIRPREFIX is > set to a directory on a local filesystem there will be no way for a > build on one system to affect one on another. You should even be able > to export /usr/ports as read-only. If it was read-only, where would the source files that usually go into /usr/ports/distfiles go? I'd like to only have to download these once too. > (Changing WKRDIRPREFIX also makes it a lot easier and faster to clean > up after building ports. Instead of having to issue a 'make clean' for > each port built, you can just do a 'rm -fr /var/workdir/*' and all the > workdirs will be removed quickly.) I usually do a 'make install clean' anyway, but it would be good to be able to verify everything is actually cleaned. The other advantage of all this of course is that I would only need to do CVSup once and every machine would be up to date. Thanks for the help, Rich
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